This was brewing from last year. From their "Mission First" post on Apr 18, 2024 https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/building-ai-future-apr

This was brewing from last year. From their "Mission First" post on Apr 18, 2024 https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/building-ai-future-april-2024/ https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/buil... > “ultimately we are a workplace and our policies and expectations are clear: this is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics.” Paul Graham had predicted it back in 2020: https://x.com/paulg/status/1781329523155357914 https://x.com/paulg/status/1781329523155357914 https://www.piratewires.com/p/mission-accomplished https://www.piratewires.com/p/mission-accomplished And this was happening elsewhere too, for e.g., Microsoft: https://archive.is/p5Ewk https://archive.is/p5Ewk and Meta: https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-programs-employees-trump https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-programs-employees... & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700134 ... even as early as 2022: https://world.hey.com/dhh/meta-goes-no-politics-at-work-and-nobody-cares-d6409209 https://world.hey.com/dhh/meta-goes-no-politics-at-work-and-... For larger context, see https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/chief-diversity-officer-cdo-business-corporations-e110a82f https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/chief-diversity-officer...